Colour Creations - Week #25 - Gray Granite

The participants in AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. We love to Blog Hop sharing all the Stampin' Up! Colours. This week we are sharing Gray Granite a wonderful part of the neutrals range.

Gray Granite is a useful colour, perfect for building materials. I selected 2 different finishes on these cards, one stamped and the other texture embossed. The card with a girl has a stamped finish - Stacked Stone inked in Gray Granite (page 116, AC). It is a single large background stamp, so easy to cover a piece of card. The card with a boy is simply Gray Granite card embossed with a folder - Brick & Mortar (page 176. AC) with some white craft ink smeared on it to add some more interest. The card with a girl has a stamped finish - Stacked Stone inked in Gray Granite (page 116, AC). It is a single large background stamp, so easy to cover a piece of card.

The main stamp & die bundle used is Warm Welcome. It will be in the next mini catalogue, the January to June catalogue, but it has been introduced early. You are able to go to my online shop to order it yourself. Emma Goddard, a demonstrator from the UK initially inspired me by using the presents in the doorway, but I thought it would be fun to add the small characters from By My Side.

Balmy Blue and Fresh Freesia are the main colours used for colouring the stamped pieces, to tone with the Hues of Happiness DSP.

This style of easel card is very easy, and I often use it to display a new stamp. A Grand Kid has some sentiments just for the grandkids, and 'it's your day' is from Warm Welcome.

This one is for Tyler, who is about to turn 11. I am a bit worried that this is a bit childish for him, except he loves cartoons and does great drawings, so hopefully this is a bit on his wavelength.

I absolutely loved the way the Tahitian Tide and Parakeet Party blends combined when colouring the gifts.

Guess where the 'Be Awesome' sentiment came from? I happened to notice 'And Be Awesome' in Nothing's Better Than, did a little masking and it suits a young chap's card.

Just so Tyler doesn't take it personally, I've signed off (as I often do) with caricatures of Pop and me! It's a retired stamp set called Senior Years which I kept in my stash for just this purpose.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Kathryn Ruddick has made in Gray Granite this week.

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of this week’s host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, Cathy Proctor, and she will have the list of all participants.

By My Side

At the end of May I shared on Facebook Live a paper piecing technique that's been around for ever & a day, as my lovely Mum used to say.

Here's that video

A very easy technique, you stamp the image once where it will be ending up, unless you are planning to die cut of fussy cut. By My Side does not have dies, so I chose to place them on basic white card and decided later which shape to cut.

You will have to also stamp onto pattern paper to 'dress' them in this case, although you can construct a scene using this technique. Clothes were all I used for these images, the remainder is coloured using Stampin' Blends, our alcohol markers.

By My Side is on page 52 of the Annual catalogue, tucked away in the kids & babies section.

It has been a long weekend here in Victoria, celebrating Queens Birthday. Of course the days are chilly, but I've filled them by baking biscuits and making pumpkin soup from my own home-grown pumpkin.

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In The Moment With You

These two images from In The Moment had not been receiving the attention they deserved, so when I was sharing a paper-piecing technique on Facebook, I chose these two as my models.

You can check out my video here.

Paper-piecing is not difficult, and it can be a lot of fun - just like paper dolls were when I was young.

For the first card, her top and trousers have been stamped and cut from Abstract Beauty SDSP, which is on special in the Last Chance Sale. The SDSP on the card base is also from Abstract Beauty. There are a diverse range of patterns and colours in there.

This paper measures 6" x 4", so there is no need to trim the short side, and the piece taken from the longer side is ideal for trimming the inside of the card.

 On this card, the blanket and her jeans are paper-pieced. The sentiments have been brought in from another couple of stamp sets I was playing with at the same time. By My Side had the one used on this card above , while Happy Birthday is from Lovely & Lasting.

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